BAM.A Brookfield Asset Management Inc

TORONTO, Jan. 28 /CNW/ -- TORONTO, Jan. 28 /CNW/ - Standard & Poor's Canadian Index Operations announces the following index changes: -- Brookfield Asset Management Inc. (TSX:BAM.A) has acquired 113.3 million shares of General Growth Properties Inc. from the Fairholme Fund. Brookfield Asset Management has issued 27.5 million shares to Fairholme as part of the payment in the transaction. The relative weight of Brookfield Asset Management will increase in the S&P/TSX Composite and Capped Composite, the S&P/TSX Equity and Capped Equity, the S&P/TSX 60, 60 Capped and Equity 60, the S&P/TSX MegaCap, the S&P/TSX Capped Real Estate and the S&P/TSX Composite Dividend indices to reflect this issuance of Brookfield shares. There will be no change to the weight of Brookfield Asset Management in the S&P/TSX 60 Equal Weight or the S&P/TSX 60 130/30 Strategy Index. These changes will be effective after close on Friday, February 4, 2011. Company additions to and deletions from an S&P equity index do not in any way reflect an opinion on the investment merits of the company. About S&P Indices S&P Indices, the world's leading index provider, maintains a wide variety of investable and benchmark indices to meet an array of investor needs. Over $1.25 trillion is directly indexed to Standard & Poor's family of indices, which includes the S&P 500, the world's most followed stock market index, the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices, the S&P Global BMI, an index with approximately 11,000 constituents, the S&P GSCI, the industry's most closely watched commodities index, and the S&P National AMT-Free Municipal Bond Index, the premier investable index for U.S. municipal bonds. For more information, please visit www.standardandpoors.com/indices. To view this news release in HTML formatting, please use the following URL: http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/January2011/28/c6218.html tabletr valign="top"td align="left"Tony Northbr/ Standard & Poor'sbr/ Director, Canadian Index Servicesbr/ (416) 507-3204br/ a href="mailto:tony_north@standardandpoors.com"tony_north@standardandpoors.com/a/td/tr tr valign="top"td align="left"David R. Guarinobr/ Standard & Poor'sbr/ Communications                        br/ (212) 438-1471br/ a href="mailto:dave_guarino@standardandpoors.com"dave_guarino@standardandpoors.com/a/td/tr/table

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